Pugcrazy
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- Dec 2, 2015
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Hi everybody - I'm new to this forum and have been reading your posts, they are so encouraging! I am in the beginning stages of this process...searching for a surgeon. Its just been in the last few months that I decided WLS was a real option for me, now that I have found out more about the DS procedure. I really believe its only appropriate procedure for me as I have a horrible time losing weight, even with 100% compliance to multiple "diets" combined with moderate exercise. I've undergone a couple of "resting metabolism" tests and score very low (duh! I could've told my Dr's that but it helps to have the confirmation). Unfortunately I don't qualify for coverage through my insurance carrier as I don't have the comorbidities with a BMI of 35 - a result of my dieting and exercising, no doubt - so I will be a Self Pay patient. I've come to terms with it, because if I add up all the money I have paid for diet programs, supplements, boot camps, fat camps, hypnotherapy, personal trainers, acupuncture, etc. I could have paid for WLS 10 times over!!!!!
I had a consult with a bariatric surgeon in Boston, he doesn't do DS and they don't even have a "self pay" option. He wants me to be his first balloon patient (Orbera) or the Maestro V Blok (stomach) pacemaker - both of which are temporary solutions, at $10K each - NO THANKS! I hope you all will bear with me as I learn more...so many of you have already helped me so much!
**There doesn't appear to be any DS Surgeons in Mass, so I am focusing on Florida as I go there for the winter months anyway.
I had a consult with a bariatric surgeon in Boston, he doesn't do DS and they don't even have a "self pay" option. He wants me to be his first balloon patient (Orbera) or the Maestro V Blok (stomach) pacemaker - both of which are temporary solutions, at $10K each - NO THANKS! I hope you all will bear with me as I learn more...so many of you have already helped me so much!
**There doesn't appear to be any DS Surgeons in Mass, so I am focusing on Florida as I go there for the winter months anyway.